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Re Swager Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Re Swager Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Minneapolis Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Re Swager Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $68k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $6,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $4,500 |
| MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC | $4,000 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| HIGHPOINT CENTER FOR PRINTMAKING | $3,500 |
| PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS | $3,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -37% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY7× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +80%
- MSMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS7× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +65%
- PEPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $4k
- LOLutheran Outdoor Ministries Indiana- Kentucky Incone grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of minnesota public radio is creating the future of public media by amplifying voices to inform, include, and inspire.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
The minneapolis club is a private city club that brings together an engaged community of talented and diverse people, connecting them socially and professionally through extraordinary experiences.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highpoint Center for Printmaking ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CLAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BITTY KITTY BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Indiana- Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds Ashleys Kitten Academy ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN KITTEN CLUB INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Re Swager Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Re Swager Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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